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Wimbledon 2014

I always enjoy playing guitar at Wimbledon and I’ve been doing so for about the last ten years. We play Brazilian style music with a slightly unusual line up of trombone, saxophone, guitar, double bass and drums. The audience who are predictably tennis enthusiasts are able to enjoy listening to the band while they sup their champagne and eat their strawberries and cream in the Tea Garden. It’s an outdoor concert so it is rather weather dependant but as yet I’ve not played there when the weather has been too awful. One of the perks of the gig is that we get the opportunity to watch some of the tennis matches. It is often the case as a working musician you get to go and see amazing places through your work and this is one of the events I particularly enjoy.

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